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TO SHARE WITH YOU, compliments of ThinkShop
IS THIS YOU?
- you want to monitor how much your students knowledge of thinking skills
increases from year to year
- you need hard data and graphs
- your staff are teaching thinking tools and strategies: e.g.
- Six hats
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- PMI
- Venn diagrams
- flowcharts
- Graphic Thinkers
IF THE ANSWER IS YES: then feel free to use SWATS
Download
the PDF for the SWATS test
and
Download the Student Answer
Sheet
View
feedback on SWATS - ideas for use from other teachers
who have used it!
WHAT IS THE REASONING BEHIND SWATS?
I've been working for quite a while now on designing
a way of assessing students' thinking skills, and recording some kind of
progress across the school. Tricky. After much research and trialling and
refining, SWATS is the result to date. It's a work in progress, and I'd
be happy for you to use it if you're willing to share with me any suggestions
for improvement and also let me know if the results are proving their worth
to you and your school!
WHAT is the PURPOSE of SWATS?
- SWATS is designed to measure students' KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING
of thinking tools across the year
- Results are for teachers and administrators to inform practice
for the year
- Can be given as a Pretest at the start of year one, then
at the beginning of every year after that for comparative analysis
- Results can be easily tallied and graphed
- Designed so that younger students can have the test administered
verbally by an older "buddy"
- Results can be analysed for scoring purely on Six Hats,
and/or on Bloom's and thinking strategies (PMI, Venn diagram, flowchart)
It is not designed to measure HOW students are applying those
tools in their schoolwork; once the test data shows strengths and weaknesses
in thinking tools and strategies, then teachers can assess how well students
are applying the thinking tools during daily schoolwork and performances
of understanding. I hope SWATS will help schools whose teachers are keen
on implementing a school-wide thinking-skills-development programme*.
I'd especially like to thank Chris
Gladstone of St
Joseph's School in Nelson, for bouncing ideas around and for her enthusiastic
help in tweaking and testing SWATS at St Joseph's Catholic School in
Nelson.
* For a Scope and Sequence chart for years
1-13, see"How To Teach Thinking Skills" pages 112-113,
available from ThinkShop.
HERE IT IS: click here to download
the PDF
And please remember to send me feedback!
And yes, you're welcome to hand out copies as long as you acknowledge the source.
Best regards,
JEAN and the team at ThinkShop
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